2. Hemostasis and Blood Coagulation Flashcards

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Coagulation and Dentistry
• Tooth Extraction-Up to 10% of extraction
wounds heal improperly:
• Further complicated by:
– Poor general health (\_\_\_\_, Vitamin C and \_\_\_\_ deficiency)
 – Compromised \_\_\_\_ Function
– Genetic \_\_\_\_ Disorders
– Patients on Anti-\_\_\_\_
* Blood coagulation depends on Vit K, C and folate deficiency - complicate extractions and contribute to bleeding disorders
* Alcoholics, individuals on medications, hepatitis patients, HIV/AIDs, fasting, albumin-issues, potent chemotherapies - compromised liver function
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vitamin K
folate
liver
hemorrhagic
coagulants
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• Hemostasis- a series of regulated processes that maintain blood
in a ____, ____STATE in normal vessel while rapidly forming a ____ PLUG, at the site of vascular injury.

* Series of processes that allow blood to be fluid and clot-free when there is no injury - mostly anti-coagulants/anti-aggretory
* However, when site of injury > very quickly need to form localized hemostatic plug (liquid into a solid structure) > involves a series of pro-coag/pro-agg compounds
* When balance shifts > various problems > hemostasis goes awry
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fluid
clot-free
localized hemostatic

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When hemostasis goes awry
• Hemorrhagic disorders- characterized by excessive bleeding, hemostatic mechanisms are either ____ or insufficient to prevent normal blood loss.
• ____ disorders- blood clots (thrombi) that are formed within intact blood vessels or within chambers of the heart- discuss in more detail in Thrombosis-Embolism.

• Pro-aggretory mechanisms here are inhibited - hemorrhagic disorders
• Thrombotic - not necessarily at a site of \_\_\_\_, obstruct vasculature, leading to complications
	○ Increase in pro-aggretatory vs. anti > thrombus formation
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blunted
thrombotic

injury

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Normal Clotting In Response to Injury
Relies on complex interaction between all three components:

  1. ____- Endothelium and underlying ECM.
  2. ____
  3. ____ Cascade• Platelets form the ____
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vascular wall
platelets
coagulation
platelet plug

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Coagulation is initiated by…..
• ____ to the vascular wall and surrounding tissue.
• Contact of blood with damaged ____

Stages of Hemostasis
• Vasoconstriction (____ phase)- Transient
• Platelet Activation Phase-Formation of a ____
• Coagulation Phase – coagulation phase activation, ____ and ____ formation.
• Fibrinolytic Phase: Clot ____ and ____

• This process occurs in four distinct stages…
• Do not want to vasoconstrict for a period of time
• Platelet plug is stabliized via fibrin mesh and clot - utilizes a coagulation cascade
	○ Coagulation is \_\_\_\_ phase, platelet activation is \_\_\_\_
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trauma
endothelium

vascular
platelet plug
fibrin mesh
clot
stabilization
resorption

second
primary

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Vascular Phase: Vasoconstriction
• Contraction results from
– ____ reflexes- by pain nerve impulses
– ____-
contraction of blood vessels- vascular spasm
– Local humoral factors- platelet release of vasoconstrictor ____

• Vasoconstriction- reduces flow of blood from vessel rupture

* Locally - TXA2, and \_\_\_\_ results in vasoconstriction
* Recruit \_\_\_\_ to that site of injury
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nervous
local myogenic spasm
TXA2
endothelin
platelets
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First responders - platelets
Auto-catalytic
Resting platelet:
• Small (1-4 micrometers in diameter), ____, circulating, smooth discs derived from ____,
• Normal concentration in blood is ____ mg/dL
• Half-life in blood ____ days.

Activated platelet:
Adhere to ____ and ECM (collagen, fibronectin, proteoglycans) and change ____
Activation-Secrete ____ containing pro- coagulants
Aggregate to form a platelet plug and provide catalytic surface

* Von willibron factor - protein that is utilized during \_\_\_\_ 
* These processes happen \_\_\_\_, and it's \_\_\_\_
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anuclear
megakaryocyte
150,000-450,000
8-12

vWF
shape
granules

adherence
simultaneously
auto-catalytic

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  1. Injury
  2. Adhesion:
    ➢____
    ➢-Collagen
  3. Activation:
    ➢____ Changes
    ➢Granule Secretion ➢____ loops
4. Aggregation:
➢\_\_\_\_
➢Thrombin
production 
➢\_\_\_\_
• Thrombin cleaves \_\_\_\_ into fibrin - going from a mechanical plug, to a more \_\_\_\_ mesh that has fibrin holding it down
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von willebrand factor (vWF)
membrane
feedback
vWF
fibrinogen

fibrinogen
organized

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Adhesion- process by which platelets adhere to damaged regions of vessels
• Interaction between platelet Surface receptor (____) and ____. Platelet GpIIb-IIIa- bind ____
• Interaction between platelet receptor and exposed collagen
– vWF stabilizes interaction with collagen against ____ of blood flow
– vWF acts as ____ for platelets followed by adherence of platelets to ECM

• vWF binds to specific integrin on platelet (\_\_\_\_) > in presence of ADP > platelets expose second integrin (\_\_\_\_), which is a receptor for fibrinogen
• 3 common deficiencies in these factors - deficiency in vWF
	○ Not able to catch \_\_\_\_ - you're going to have increased bleeding
	○ Deficiency in \_\_\_\_ (Glosmon etc. etc.)
		§ Increased bleeding
	○ Deficiency in integrin that is binding \_\_\_\_ (Bernand-Solar?)
		§ Increased bleeding
	○ Deficiency in \_\_\_\_ is most common
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GpIb
vWF
fibrinogen
shear forces
catcher
GpIb
GpIIb-IIIa
catching
integrin
vWF
vWF
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Platelet Activation- process by which platelets respond to binding ECM
Results in
➢ Shape change- ____ spiny spheres.
➢ Formation of activated surface
➢ Secretion of granules in response to activation.
➢ Granules (____ and ____-granules) contain
– ____, ATP, ____, calcium
– ____ factors
– ____ factors

• Inactive state - platelets contain granules - dense and alpha
• As they begin to adhere and activated, they secrete the contents of their granules
	○ ADP - potent \_\_\_\_ agent - beacon to all other platelets
	○ TXA2 - \_\_\_\_, minimal
	○ \_\_\_\_ - coaggulation cofactors
	○ GF - reform the \_\_\_\_
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sticky
dense
alpha
ADP
TXA2
coagg
growth

pro-agg
vasoconstrictor
Ca++
endothelium

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Platelet Aggregation- process by which platelet plug is formed prior to fibrin stabilization.

  • Sets the process of thrombin processing fibrinogen to ____ in motion
  • GpIIb-IIIa on platelets binds ____ forming a bridge between adjacent platelets. Concurrently-there is an activation of thrombin via ____ complex
    • Bring the fibrinogen with them, in order to form the fibrin
    • Bound to the collagen, and they have spiky “hands” > start pulling in two sides of site of injury to try to organize the area and make a stable clot
    • Platelet surface is going to form the surface onto which ____ binds, as the last step in the coagulation cascade
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fibrin
fibrinogen
pro-thrombinase

pro-thrombin

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Primary Hemostasis-Formation of a platelet plug
• At injury, platelets bind collagen, caught by ____, collagen activates platelets, platelets change shape, release granules, ____ is a potent pro-agg compound, ____ is a mild vasoconstrictor and is pro-agg
• The entire surface is geared to recruit more platelets
• As aggregate, they form a ____ plug

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vWF
ADP
TXA2
hemostatic

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Aggregation: a delicate balance between Endothelium and platelets

➢ Endothelium produces Anti-aggregatory agents.
➢ ____
➢ ADPase

➢ Platelets secrete- Pro-aggregatory agents.

➢ ____
➢ ADP (at high levels feeds back to stimulate ____)

• You don't want platelets aggregating upstream or downstream of inflammatory - do not want clots here - vessel occlusion
• Endothelium itself has anti-agg properties
	○ Doesn't have EC collagen exposed
	○ Synthesizes prostacyclin - anti-agg compound
	○ Synthesizes ADPase - cleaves ADP
• Balance of focusing pro-agg at only at site of injury, and the rest of the endothelium maintains its anti-agg properties
• The platelets secrete pro-agg
	○ TXA2 and ADP
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prostacyclin (PGI2)
TXA2
PGI2

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Coagulation Cascade

What causes initiation of the coagulation cascade?
____ to the vascular wall and surrounding tissue release of tissue factor.
Contact of blood with damaged ____.

  • Basic Principle: each reaction depends on the assembly of an ____ (an activated coagulation factor), a ____ ( a pro-enzyme form of the next coagulation factor in the series) and a ____ ( a reaction accelerator- often ____)
  • Assembled on a phospholipid surface either the ____ surface or the ____ surface.
    • Release of TF, and contact of blood (contains factors that are activated by TF to form thrombin)
    • Phospholipid surface = ____ surface
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trauma
endothelium
enzyme
substrate
cofactor
Ca++

endothelial
platelet

platelet

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• Two pathways: Intrinsic (in vitro) and Extrinsic
– ____ delineation
– ____ between two pathways

• Two pathways converge at common factor- ____ to form the prothrombinase complex. End result is production of thrombin which catalyzes cleavage of fibrinogen to ____

• Extrinsic Pathway- Most ____ Relevant
– Begins with trauma to the vascular damage and release of ____ which activates pathway
– Explosive- in severe tissue trauma clotting occurs within ____ seconds

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artificial
cross-talk
factor X
fibrin

physiologically
tissue factor
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• Intrinsic pathway > in-vitro pathway > used to test for various properties for individuals with disease
• Not separate and distinct, but an artificial delineation, and there is cross-talk
• In order to activate extrinsic > TF is generated at endothelium; the factors that are downstream are all contained in the ____
• Two forms of factors; inactive forms (red) and active forms (green)
○ Inactive: ____ > activated F8
• Complexes that require phospholipid surface are in yellow
○ Also require ____; the platelets themselves secrete Ca in the granules
• Extrinsic pathway (same time as plug forming) activated with release of TF; occurs with 10-15s > TF activates inactive ____ into active F10, it also activates ____ (if it’s in the intrinsic pathway) > activated F10 is going to (on surface of ____) is going to activate ____ > combination of F10 and F5 form complex that ____ binds to > activated to thrombin > activates fibrin from fibrinogen > fibrin forms a stable covalent mesh through the activity of ____
○ These processes from F10 to the formation of thrombin, all happen on the surface of the ____ plug
○ Fibrinogen is sitting within the platelet plug

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blood
F8
Ca++
F10
F7
platelet
F5
pro-thrombin
F13
platelet
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Prothrombinase Complex- also known as Prothrombin Activator
• Activates ____ - acts a holder for ____; and on other side it holds ____
• F10 - ____ - cleaves the pro-thrombin to generate thrombin
• All happens on surface of ____ plug
• This whole structure corresponds to …
• Thrombin feeds back and activates aspects of ____ cascade in order to form the fibrin mesh
• Therefore, ____ also activates other coagulation factors

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F5
F10
pro-thrombin
protease
platelet
co-agg
fibrin
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Thrombin cleaves fibrinogen to form clot

• Fibrinogen is a \_\_\_\_-peptide, and it has a N-terminal region, and it has a series of \_\_\_\_ charged peptides (repel each other) > these peptides are cleaved by \_\_\_\_
• Thrombin cleaves negatively charged peptides > fibrin monomers than in a staggered array sit on top of the platelet plug
• In terms of vasculature, taken jelly-like plug stabilized with fibrin
	○ Blood flow is less \_\_\_\_ (endothelin levels are decreased, and TXA2 are lowered) > you want normal blood flow again
• \_\_\_\_ array of fibrin > soft clot > can be washed away, but the fibrin dimers are \_\_\_\_ linked > true, chicken-mesh, covalent fibrin mesh > allows you to heal \_\_\_\_, and allows it not to be washed away by blood flow
	○ Linked by Vit K dependent transglutaminase - \_\_\_\_
• Compromised transglutaminase activity
	○ Vit K - lipid soluble
	○ Patients with \_\_\_\_ surgery, and \_\_\_\_ diets
	○ Synthesized in \_\_\_\_
• What might be consequence of inability to form fibrin polymer
	○ \_\_\_\_ - require the covalently linked polymer mesh
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tri
negatively
thrombin
vasoconstricted
staggered
covalently
wound

F13

bariatric
unhealthy
liver
bleeding/bruising

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Secondary Hemostasis-Deposition of Fibrin

• TF > F10 (extrinsic) > phospholipid surface is formed by platelet plug, and the surface allows pro-thrombin to be convert to thrombin > fibrinogen to fibrin > fibrin must be polymerized by activated \_\_\_\_ (vit-K dependent transglutaminase)
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Clot retraction-Serum vs Plasma
• Clot begins to retract ____ minutes after formation.
• Platelets contribute to retraction by contracting platelet ____ attached to fibrin thus the edges of the broken blood vessel are pulled closer together for repair.
• Fluid exuded from the clot within ____ minutes- this fluid is called ____- most ____ and ____ factors have been removed.

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2-3
spicules
20-60
serum
fibrinogen
clotting
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Plug Dissolution
• Do not want to keep fibrin mesh in circulation bc after site of injury is healed it becomes a ____ of immune cells, RBCs, which can propagate to form a ____ (clot that forms in an area where you don’t have site of injury, or where you have not dissolved a plug)
• Dissolution of plug relies on ____ (protease), platelets bring these in with fibrinogen
○ Plasminogen is inactive, it is activated to ____, which then takes and degrades the fibrin mesh to give fibrin degradation products

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“catcher”
thrombus
plasminogen
plasmin

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Fibrinolysis- Lysis of clots
• ____ cells produce tissue plasminogen activator tPA – Converts plasminogen to plasmin a day or so after vessel injury
– Plasmin is a ____ that degrades polymerized fibrin

• Free plasmin is bound and neutralized by ____
• t-PA activity is blocked by endothelial produced ____
– PAI is induced by thrombin and cytokines and therefore play a role in ____ processes of the vasculature

* Fibrinolysis - during this process the endothelium becomes \_\_\_\_
* Don't want this to happen too quickly - want time to \_\_\_\_
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endothelial
protease

plasminogen inhibitor type 1 and type 2 (PAI)

PAI
inflammatory
pro-fibrinolytic

heal

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Regulation of Plasmin Levels

Plasmin inhibited by ____

• Primary platelet plug, covered with fibrin mesh
• Endothelium release TPA > activates plasminogen > plasmin > breaks down the fibrin > fibrin-degradation products > weak anti co-agg (inhibiting the upstream coagg cascade)
• TPA is regulated by \_\_\_\_
	○ Determines how quickly plasminogen is activated, and the free plasma levels are tempered/decreased by \_\_\_\_, so the clot is broken down at a regulated appropriate rate
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anti-plasmin (AP)
PAI
anti-plasmin

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Fibrinolytic Phase- counter-regulatory mechanisms limit hemostatic plug to site of injury

Intravascular anti-coagulants
• Thrombomodulin-integral protein of ____- binds 85 % of free ____ thus inactivating it
• Anti-thrombin III. Bind remaining ____, inhibits several enzymes of coagulation cascade.
• Heparin-____- potentiates anti-thrombin III. Low levels in blood when binds to anti-thrombin III increases its activity ____ fold. Abundant in lung where there is ____ venous blood flow

* More RBC in veins because it's much slower, in the arteries there are fewer, there are more WBC***
* In addition to fibronolysis, there are intravascular anti-coagulants that inhibit various aspects of the coagg cascade
* Thrombomodulin - lets \_\_\_\_ take precedence over coagg (binds 85% of thrombin)
* Heparin - don't do much, but when bind ATIII > they increase their activity
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endothelium
thrombin
thrombin
proteoglycan
1000
slow

fibrinolysis

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How do we prevent the clot from propagating? • Release of ____ by uninjured endothelium • Anti-thrombins – ____ inhibits thrombin, factor Xa, IXa, XIa, and VIIa • Endothelial ____ binds thrombin – Activates Protein C and S which inactivates Factors Va and VIIIa by ____ • ____ produced by fibrin-bound-tPA – Breaks down fibrin and fibrin degradation products * Heparin-like molecules - bind anti-thrombin > inactivate thrombin > decreasing levels of circulating thrombin; also inactivates ____ and ____ (beginning of ext. path) * Thrombomodulin > binds thrombin > activates protein ____ in presence of protein ____ > inactivates ____; F5 and F10 were most important factors: sit on ____ surface, and allow pro-thrombin to be cleaved to thrombin * Endothelium release tissue plasminogen activator > breaks down clot; and releases tissue pathway inhibitor > inhibits ____ step in ext. pathway
``` PGI2 anthrombin III thrombomodulin proteolysis plasmin ``` ``` F9 F10 C S 5/8 platelet F7 ```
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Disorders leading to excessive bleeding • Liver disease and Vitamin K deficiency induced changes: – Liver disease (hepatitis, cirrhosis) results in depressed formation of ____ factors by liver – ____ is needed by liver to produce factors VII, IX, X and ____ to make covalent fibrin mesh. – Vitamin K lipid- soluble – absorbed in intestines thus decreased secretion of ____ or gastro-intestinal problems decrease vitamin K levels – ____-coumarin drug * Anything that compromises liver function including fatty liver associated with people with metabolic syndrome, obesity; or individuals who are partially or fully diabetic - are going to result in depressed formation of clotting factors. Need Vit K - without enough you'll have problems with ____ rxn. * It's actually the Vit K- dependent carboxylation of F13 and other factors that are inhibited by the drug, v. * Vit-K dependent ____ that are inhibited by warfarin * Required for coagg factors * Decrease amount of ____ thrombin formation
``` clotting vitamin K prothrombin bile warfarin ``` transglutaminase carboxylation spontaneous
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Disorders leading to excessive bleeding Platelet counts • Healthy individuals: ____ platelets/microliter. • Below 150,000 called ____ • Over 450,000 cell ____ • NOTE: blood typically still clots normally as long as the platelet count is above ____ (assuming no other problems). Spontaneous bleeding doesn’t usually occur unless the platelet count falls to below ____ • Thrombocytopenia-low levels of platelets bleeding from small vessels or capillaries. Thrombocytopenic purpura-____ defect in which antibodies to platelet glycoproteins are produced. Seen with ____, chemotherapy and infections • Thrombocytopenia - low platelet count, bruises on hands/ knuckles, or bony part of jaw bone ○ ____ - associated with AID ○ Thrombotic - associated with ____, or a cardiac problem ○ Important - if you visually see this on patient, you have to get further information [idiopathic - ____, but thrombotic - ____ inappropriately] § Are you on any kind of anti-coagulants? • May have undergone excessive chemotherapy, or have sepsis • Built in back up mechanisms to take platelets that you have and make them as spontaneous as possible • Shows the flexibility of the system, and how much lee-way there is
``` 150,000-450,00 thrombocytopenia thrombocytosis 50,000 20,000 ``` ``` auto-immune sepsis idiopathic DVT bleeds clot ```
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Hemophilia • Hemophilia- ____ defect due to an abnormality or deficiency in – Factor ____ (type ____, ____-linked) – or less commonly Factor ____ (type ____). • Hereditary, A is ____ times more prevalent than B • In dental patients bleeding after extraction can last for weeks and complications during orthodontic treatment • Therapy direct injection of Factor ____. * Most common is type A - X-linked - either an abnormality or a deficiency of factor 8 * Gingival hemorrhage in an orthodontic patient, and bleeding following a cavity prep
``` genetic VIII A X IX B 10 VIII ```
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Von Willebrand deficiency • ____ deficiency in vWF • Most common inherited bleeding disorder • Results in defective ____ • Types from mild to severe- clinically similar to ____ * Most common inherited bleeding disorder - leads to defective platelet adhesion; aggregation is ____ > no surface for formation of thrombin > cannot form the mesh (cannot cleave fibrin from fibrinogen) * Look like blood ____ on lips * After brushing you will bleed a lot
``` inherited adhesion hemophilia slower blisters ```
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Laboratory tests of coagulation Platelet count • Bleeding time. When finger pricked, bleeding lasts ____ min. If longer further tests to determine why • Clotting time- test-tube, rock blood back and forth. ____ to measure clotting factors * Count the number of platelets in a sample * Do an ELISA to look for factors that are most common (vWF, F8, F10, etc.)
1-6 | ELISA
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Measurements of Hemostatic Clot Formation Patients with inherited or acquired deficiency in intrinsic and extrinsic pathways  Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT or PTT). Measures ____ pathway. Coagulation initiated with ____ glass  Normal ____to ____ sec. Prothrombin time (PT). Time it takes for blood to coagulate in a test tube in presence of calcium and thromboplastin. Measures ____ pathway also measures effectiveness of oral anti-coagulants. Coagulation initiated with ____. Normal ____-____ secs. INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO (INR) The INR provides some information about a person’s blood’s tendency to clot (which is often described as how “____” or “thick” their blood is). The INR is a method of standardization in which PT from one lab can be compared to another’s with high accuracy. Normal INR is approximately ____. Patient on blood thinners -target INR of ____ to ____. • Take blood, add sodium citrate, add calcium, which will coagulate the blood > coag should occur within 12-14 secs (measures extrinsic) • Both mechanisms take the same; but intrinsic: blood is coag with ground glass - normally 25 to 39 secs • Same procedure, but raw numbers are different - INR - how thick/thin the blood is; normalize the prothrombin time with an equalizing factor ○ Normal - INR - ~1.0 ○ For patients on blood thinners - 2.0-3.0 ○ The higher number, the "____" the blood ○ May end up seeing these values on a medical profile
intrinsic ground 25 39 extrinsic ca++ 12 14 thin 1. 0 2. 0 3. 0 thicker
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Clinical applications Absorbable hemostats contain ____ • Gauze that are soaked in collagen, and insert into extraction socket > stimulate platelet plug formation > stimulate the entire process of coagulation
collagen
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Roles of Thrombin both pro and anti-aggregatory • Catalyze ____ formation • Promote platelet aggregation and secretion • Feed back inhibition-inactivates several factors in ____ and ____ pathway • Induce endothelial cells - – to produce ____, PGI2 and ____ Regulation of Fibrinolysis * Pro-agg - catalyzes fibrin formation, and promotes platelet agg/secretion * Feed back inhibit and inactivate at high cxn factors in both intrinsic/extrinsic pathway * ____ > dissolves clot * ____ at high levels > decrease platelet aggregation * ____ - comes from persistent bac infection - can cleave plasminogen to plasmin - altered wound healing/healing proteins * TPA > plasminogen to plasmin > fibrin-degrad from fibrin, which are anti-coagg
``` fibrin intrinsic extrinsic tPA cytokines ``` TPA PGI2 streptokinase
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Endothelium: anti-coagulant properties - Smooth surface - repels ____ - Release ____ - Thrombomodulin - Fibrinolytic – Synthesize ____ (tissue plasminogen activator) • tPA clears fibrin from endothelial surface by generating plasmin from plasminogen ``` Endothelium: Pro-coagulant Properties In Response to injury, endothelial cells: – Expose ____ – Produce ____) – Produce ____ – Secrete inhibitors of ____ ```
``` platelets PGI2 t-PA collagen von willebrand factor (vWF) tissue factor (TF) plasminogen activator (PAIs) ```
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Virchow’s Triad • Describes the inter-relationship between the 3-primary abnormalities that lead to thrombus formation • Link ____ injury, abnormal ____, and ____, leading to formation of thrombus and emboli
endothelial flow hypercoagulability